Ernest siron



(xp nodali) E.v S'IRON;

DEGURATION POR TEXTILE PABRIGS.

No. 570,612.A Patented Nov. 3, 1896.

WITNESSES:

UNITED STATES ERNEST SIRON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., COOPER BYRNES,

PATENT OFFICE.

ASSIGN OR OF ONE-HALF TO THOMAS OF SAME PLACE.

DEcoRATloN FOR TEXTILE FABRICS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 570,612, dated November 3, 1896.

Application filed December 9, 1895. Serial No. 571,524. (No specimens.)

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, ERNEST SIRON, a citizen of the Republic of France, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Decorations for Textile Fabrics, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure l is a plan View of an ornamentation containing my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same, taken on the line Fig. 3 is a modification or varied form of the application of my invention; Fig. 4, a sectional view of Fig. 3 on line y y.

The object of my invention is to devise means and a process whereby there may be applied to textile fabrics in an economical, durable, attractive, and convenient manner metals or their equivalents in such manner as to produce metallic eifects in combination with embroidery. I attain these objects as follows:

I first embroider upon the textile fabric to be ornamented, such as velvet, satin, plush, felt, or the like, an outline of the figure or particular part of a `ligure to which I design to convey a metallic eect of a certain kind. Any form of stitching, or of embroidery-stitch, might be applied to make this marginal embroidery, provided the same is sufficiently substantial and sufliciently elevated to constitute in eect a raised wall or ridge along the outline of my design, as shown at c a, Fig. 2. I prefer to apply this outline embroidery by the well-known Bonnaz embroidery-machines, which overstitch to the surface of the cloth a superimposed cord; but other applications of the said machine, so as to produce a braiding-stitch or any other having the requisites referred to, might be equally employed without departing from my invention.

Having thus constructed an outline inclosure or wall having the form of the desired design, as shown at c a in the drawings, I next proceed to apply my metallic or equivalent effeet as follows: I prepare a composition consisting of nely-divided particles, each having a brilliant metallic surface, which I combine with each other and with the surface of the cloth or fabric by mixing with a transparent cement, preferably iexible, such as, for instance, a rubber cement wheregreat iiexibilityis required, or in other cases any animal cement of suliicient transparency and 5 5 tenacity, as, for instance, chromated glue, though where the surfaces to be treated therewith are of limited area this flexibility is not so material.

This composition of lustrous particles and 6o cement may be produced in various ways, but, for instance, I prefer where a silver metallic effect is to be produced to take chemically-pure pulverized tin, the particles of which are substantially globular, and then to flatten these particles by beating them, or in any other convenient Way. I next apply to the surface of the material to be ornamented in the position thereon in which the metallic effect is desired a layer or coating b of the 7o aforesaid cement in a liquid or semi-liquid condition, and while the same remains in such condition I fill it with the aforesaid iiattened metallic particles, taking pains to completely fill and cover the cement, so that the mixture will present on the surface substantially nothing but the metallic particles. As the cement hardens, these particles c will be permanently retained thereon and thereby, and also secured firmly to the cloth or fabric. In this 8o way extremely novel and beautiful effects can be produced, since the marginal walls or inclosures may be made of such colors and designs as may suit the fancy, and the interior spaces iilled with various-colored metallic 8 5 particles or their equivalents in an infinite vvariety of color and ornamentation.

The ornamental effects produced by my invention as aforesaid-may be applied to an infinite variety of uses; but they are perhaps 9o particularly applicable to show-windows or other conspicuous places, as, for instance, upon corset show-busts and the like.

Other metals than tin may, of course, be employed and treated in the manner that I have suggested, such, for instance, as bronzepowder, and evengold-leaf, aluminium, and v silver-leaf may be so applied. These latter might be applied without pulver'izing and attem'ng, as suggested, though I much preroo fer the latter, as it enhances greatly the brilliancy of the eect.

' of about one part of shellac to ten parts of alcohol.

lVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the following, viz:

l. As an article of manufacture, a fabric having stitched thereto a continuous raised outline of a design, substantially all of the inclosed surfaces of which are covered with metal cemented to such fabric, substantially as and for the purposes described.

il. The method of ornainenting textile fabrics, which consists in stitching thereon a continuous raised outline or iuclosure of a desired design, flowing' over the inclosed surfaces, cement in a plastic condition, and, before such cement hardens, introducing into the same metallic particles, substantially as andfor the purposes described.

The method of ornamenting textile fabrics, which consists in stitching thereon a continuous raised outline or inclosure of a. desired design, flowing over the entire inclosed surfaces, cement in a plastic condition, and, before such cement hardens, applying to the same, metal, substantially as and for the purposes described.

ERNEST SIRON. lVitnesses Trios. COOPER BYRNES, GEORGE S. LUDLoW.

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